Quotes About Performance

I used to put all my doll babies on my bed with their hands up and I would do full shows for them. I'd even do the screaming and clapping. I was bugging to be a singer.

I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.

I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva.

The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent... it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.

As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.

I'm an OK singer.

I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist.

I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

I see myself as like the lead singer of a band or something.

I don't really look at dubbing from a singer's shoes.

A good microphone is an essential thing for a singer.

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

Yes, I am a good singer.

I am not the worst singer.

Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.

I want to be a playback singer and make my name big.

I'm a rock and roll singer.

My goal was to become a 'good singer' rather than a 'different singer.'

I want to be like Chris Brown meets Jay Z. Chris is a singer, a dancer, a complete powerhouse on stage and Jay Z is not just a popular musician, but also a lyrical genius, a business mogul, who knows how to be classy.